Abortion laws in England and Wales face biggest shake-up in nearly 60 years | Abortion

Parliament is scheduled to vote on whether abortion should be criminalized on Tuesday, while it will be the largest disposal of reproductive rights in England Wales is nearly 60 years.

Fierce battles have gone behind the quarrels Stella Cristian pressure Trying to take their competition adjustments forward to vote.

It is understood that only one vote is voted, and with the fact that Antoniazzi is the main modification of the request sheet, it is likely to be chosen.

The amendments, scheduled to be considered during the report phase of the crime and police bill, will witness the greatest change in the abortion law since miscarriage 1967 Law.

“Motivating abortion” is still a criminal crime, as the abortion law has strict criteria according to which it can occur legally.

Calls for law reform has increased in recent years, as well as increasing the number of trials of women suspected of illegal miscarriage.

Antoniazzi modification contains more supporters, with more than 170 names, and great support among parties, with signatories of the parties including exhaustionLiberal Democrats, Greens, SDLP and conservatives.

If both the amendment and the parents ’bill are approved, this means that women will not be tried to end their pregnancy.

However, it will not change the framework through which the abortion is reached, with time limits, remotely, the causes of miscarriage and the requirements of the remaining doctors ’approval in place.

Among the organizations that support the change in the Royal College of Law, the Royal College of Nursing and the British Medical Association.

“Under the current laws, women who have suffered from unjustified pregnancy loss may be vulnerable to criminal investigation, and health professionals who are placed in the field of unacceptable and unjustified scrutiny may be,” said Dr. Rani Thakar, head of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

It is concerned that the fear of the investigation by the police may deter women from urgent medical care.

“We believe that this is not in the public interest and that these women should be treated with care and mercy, without a sentence or fear of prison.”

“In any other part of health care, she is likely to face prison by taking a medical treatment,” said Sarah Sallald, MSI medical director of MSI, a non -governmental organization that provides contraceptive and safe abortion services.

She said that during what is often a “very annoying scenario”, police investigations can revolve around people’s lives upside down “and that some women spent months or years under investigation before the cases were dropped.

“The vast majority of people are less than 10 weeks” when they have a termination, but those who reach abortion outside the legal framework are “they are likely to be very vulnerable” like those who have abusive relationships, or who have serious mental health problems.

The most complex amendment to Creasy seeks to move forward, remove doctors from the criminal law, and seek to prevent the change of abortion law by a future parliament.

Several deputies have signed both modifications, although some have pulled their name from Crassy’s, after public and private pressure.

There was anxiety between deputies and activists about the competing adjustments, and the division of a camp for people who mainly want to achieve the same goal.

There are fears that the upper -style classroom to improve women’s rights will actually have an opposite effect, and draws attention to what could be an exciting issue of dispute.

Reform leader Nigel Faraj said that the current time of the 24 -week time is “completely ridiculous.”

The British pregnancy counseling service (BPAS) was one of the most vocal supporters to modify Antoniazzi – and audio critic for Crase’s.

The second of the country’s largest abortion providers, the MSI reproductive options, also supports Antoniazzi modification, said by Louise Mcoden, head of the UK Foreign Affairs, “designed to fix a very specific problem we see at the present time, women who are facing a criminal investigation and imprisoning them to end the pregnancy.

“Obtaining the reform of the abortion law will take time … We do not want to hurry. But also, women who are investigated and counter -prosecution cannot wait.”

She added that the vote will represent a “huge milestone.”

She said, “We see in the United States with a retreat from reproductive rights and a decline in gender equality,” she said.

“So he truly sends a strong signal, not just for women here, where they are supported, [but] Also for countries around the world … that retreat is not inevitable. “